Content
Key: Alan Bond (AB), Francoise Jarvis (FJ), Paul Street (PS)

1. Problems in terms of law and the environment (PS)
2. International context for environmental law (PS)
3. UK legal framework (FJ)
4. Source of environmental law / policy in the UK (FJ)
5. Influence of European Union law on UK environmental law (FJ)
6. Civil law remedies for environmental pollution (FJ)
7. Criminal law remedies for environmental pollution (FJ)
8. Other legal mechanisms (FJ)
9. How the law can deal with bad decision making on environmental matters (FJ)
10. Planning law and the control of development - context for EIA (FJ)
11. Case Studies (PS)
12. Case Studies (PS)
13. Explaining the value of Environmental Impact Assessment (AB)
14. Introduction to Environmental Impact Assessment (AB)
15. EIA in the UK - the difference between an ideal process and EIA regulations (AB)
16. EIA - deciding whether it is necessary? (AB)
17. EIA - deciding what issues should be covered? (AB)
18. The Environmental Impact Statement (AB)
19. Maintaining quality in Environmental Impact Assessment (AB)
20. EIA methods - how can you do it? (AB)
21. EIA outside the UK (AB)
22. Strategic Environmental Assessment - the impacts of policies, plans and programmes (AB)

Aims and objectives
Aims and Objectives: The module has a number of progressive aims as indicated in the following list:

• The module aims to provide a critical awareness of the difficulties that arise in translating environmental and scientific issues into legal ones. That is, the course aims to ask how, in a society where competing notions of risk exist, can legally enforceable rules be developed which will succeed in preventing environmental harm?

• This module aims to explain selected aspects of the regulatory framework and practice, and some of the underlying legal and policy issues relating to environmental protection, set into an international and European context which underpins current environmental management.

• The module aims to explain the need for, and value of, Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) in the context of environmental protection.

• The module aims to explain how EIA works in the United Kingdom, providing both the legal context and practical insights.

Learning outcomes
Students should be aware of both the possibilities and the limitations of legal instruments and principles in aiming to ensure environmental protection; and should understand how EIA can function to facilitate prospective environmental protection.